Throughout history the planning and erection of transport infrastructure has always played an important role. Nowadays it is impossible to imagine modern society functioning without the services that the transportsector contributes to an economy. In this light, the growing discrepancy between the decrease in state revenue and the increase in demand for an improved transport infrastructure is cause for an alarm. Inadequate transport infrastructure threatens to hold back overall economic performance. An in-depth analysis of transport infrastructure, which defines transport infrastructure as a marketable product, helps to identify the reasons for the current alarming situation and makes suggestions on how to solve the problem. The development on the demand side is being driven by increasing quantitative and qualitative needs for transportation. It is manifested in a fast growing demand for individual transportation services. Various developments on the supply side have generated a situation in which the historical reasons for the state being the sole provider of transport infrastructure are no longer applicable. This new situation requires and allows private enterprises to operate as providers of transport infrastructure and presents the question of how the private financial involvement should be designed. The options range from simple public outsourcing to the private sector right through to a completely private system where the state merely defines the framework for private activities.